Stephanie Seymour credits designer Azzedine Alaïa for helping her rise to supermodel status — by bragging about her “great” rear to other designers.

“Azzedine has always been such a strong, loving, fatherly figure,” Seymour said in Surface magazine. “At the first show I did for him in Paris, he . . . wanted to help me get more work. He called all his friends, Kenzo and Comme des Garçons, and asked them to book me. They said, ‘But she can’t walk!’ And he said, ‘But she has such a great ass!’ ”